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The Last Session Of Term – Saturday 17th July

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:18:38 +0000

Unbelievably, the end of term is rapidly approaching! It’s been a busy season and the students have worked hard on a variety of skills – which they’d now like the opportunity to show off!! On the last session of term (17th July) we will be having our final presentation. It is a very informal affair, held in the drama studio from 3.30-4.15 (ish!), it’s FREE (!!) and gives family and friends the opportunity to come along and see what we do on a Saturday afternoon! We will ask that the Senior group arrive at 1pm instead of 2pm that week so we can all work together on the final rehearsal and all students will be released for the holidays at the end of the performance. If anyone has any problems with this arrangement, please do not hesitate to contact us at the office (01273 560 713). We hope to see you all there…!

This Week – Saturday 10th July

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:09:55 +0000

Jo and Pip will be runing the show this week! You can contact them on the day on : 07957 641 210 (Pip) or 07979 222 140 (Jo).

Last Week…

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:08:39 +0000

Jane Lesley was our guest tutor this week and she came in specifically to work with the students on their rehearsed readings for our final presentation. The Juniors had a 2nd read through of ‘A Birthday Surprise’, which we then cast; and then, after a bit of editing, we ‘blocked’ most of the play. The Seniors decided to work on a small section of ‘Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World’ rather than try to tackle the whole piece and devised a very strong, stylised openeing to what is quite a challenging play. We also looked at ‘believability’ in performance by doing the exercise ‘Who’s Telling The Truth?’; where the audience hears 3 different tellings of the same event and has to work who the story belonged to originally and who’s acting!

This Saturday – 3rd July

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:35:44 +0000

Pip will be at the helm today with some assistance from Jane Lesley!
If you need to contact us during the session please try Pip first : 07957 641 210 or you can get in touch with Jane on: 07980 564 849

Last Week…

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:31:53 +0000

Last week, James Pegg brought us a session on Sound and Shape and how these things can be used to create ‘visual theatre’. We created shapes from sounds and sounds from shapes and explored what body shape & language can communicate to an audience. The Juniors experimented with some vocal tennis and created shape and movements from words and phrases; whilst the Seniors used body shape and language to devise some visual scenes around things that they could see but the audience could not! We also devised 4 scenes entilted ‘Looking Up’ and ‘Looking Down’…

This Week ~ Saturday 26th June

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 06:57:37 +0000

Jo Chappell will be your superviser today! You can contact her on 07979 222 140.

Last Saturday

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 06:56:26 +0000

Pip & Jo were in the driving seat this week and we started to look at some scripts for our ‘rehearsed readings’ which we will be working on until the end of term! The Juniors chose ‘The Birthday Party’ by Julia Donaldson and the Seniors went for a very quirky little piece by Louis De Bernieres: ‘Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World’. Both groups ‘cold read’ the scripts extremely well (a very useful abillity!) and we then started to look at the casting process.

This Saturday – 19th June

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:02:56 +0000

Pip & Jo will both be working with the students this week and will be on site from 12.30.
If you need to contact them on the day, here are the numbers to call..!
Pip: 07957 641 210 Jo : 07979 222 140. We’ll see you there!

Last Saturday…

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:58:42 +0000

We had a corking start to the second half of our summer term programme with the wonderful Ryan Laight, who brought us a session on make-up & Physical Stop Motion Animation! The Juniors chose ‘Alien Transformation’ as their theme and started off by taking individual photos of each other. They then gradually added ‘layers’ of make-up, (followed by some spots!!) taking photos of each stage as they went. Once the alien transformation was complete they gradually removed the make-up: again taking photos of each stage, then uploaded the photos to a special animation programme and worked with Ryan to edit their footage into a final ‘moving’ piece (copies of which they were able to take home)! The Seniors spent the beginning of their session creating a soundtrack for the Juniors’ animation by creating a Stomp style, ‘rubbish’ band – with great effect! They then looked at the whole process of creating this kind of animation from start to finish;
story-boarding, continuity, directing, make-up, camera work, editing and soundtrack and started to put together an, as yet untitled, film of their own!

What We Did On The 22nd May!

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:36:41 +0000

James Pegg and Jo brought Sound & Music to the sessions this week! Incorporating some of the techniques that we explored last term, both groups built ’soundscapes’ using only their bodies and whatever they could find in the drama studio, to create two aurally atmospheric scenes! We also spent some time looking at different ways to use our voices; and what happens when we can’t hear what’s being said on stage- which resulted in a collection of very funny scenes (including an opera!!) performed through a window (the audience being unable to hear), accompanied by soundtrack only.